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The Age of Movies The Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Edited by Sanford Schwartz Library of America, $40 Witty, entertaining and often exhilarating, this wide-ranging collection of pieces captures the film critic at her best. Alice James A Biography Jean Strouse, preface by Colm Tóibín New York Review Books, $17.95 paper The acclaimed biographer of financier J.P. Morgan chronicles the brief but brilliant life of the younger sister of William and Henry James. The Almanac of American Politics, 2012 Michael Barone and Chuck McCutcheon University of Chicago Press, $85, paper A must for political junkies, the almanac offers timely narrative profiles of all 50 states...

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